Escape To The Highlands

Things seem to get worse.

What once has been the domain of some adventurous explorer ants, is now a common scene: If they move at all, they seem to abandon the caves and lochs and dens of ASH-1 and relocate to the Highlands.

Now I have even seen famous Anatolia totally abandoned for the first time (it looks like a ghost town). Instead, the planes of the Highlands are en vogue. Especially Santa Catarina at the very west and Bahia Plane at the very east.

This is a very threatening development, it just indicates that the crew does not like the habitat. I know from other ant colony reports on the web, that other people had the same experience: First a dream start with tunneling like crazy, then a slow down, then a complete halt, then the evacuation of the tunnels and the move to the surface... and then death.

If my crew continues to follow this script as it did until now, Expedition I will be doomed in about two weeks from now.

I try to prevent this by all means of course. I have already re-programmed my thermostat in order to produce some exotic temperatures. Praying may help as well.